So I feel like a total failure when typing up my resume?

[KDCat]

Make sure you are listing everything you do in your activities.

During junior year of high school, my best friend and I applied to National Honor Society. She showed me her resume and it listed one thing: swim team. She was all bummed out because she only had "one thing" to put on the resume.

I was on swim team with her, so I knew there was a lot more to it than that.

I took it away from her and redid it so that it listed everything that she did for swim team: lane leader for summer team, lane leader for winter team, all of the state meets that she was in and which ones she placed in, all of the national meets she was in and which one she placed in, her ranking as third best junior woman in the nation in the women's 100 butterfly (I could not believe she left that off), and the volunteer work she did with swim team in a program that teaches underprivileged kids to swim.

It wasn't just "one thing." That "one thing" was a huge commitment.

Later, when I was writing sorority resumes, I didn't just list National Honor Society. I listed all of the stuff our NHS did, as separate entries. We volunteered as babysitters for a teen mom support group. We raised money for the National Heart Association. We raised money for the United Way. We raised money for Thanksgiving food baskets for needy families. We raised money to put ceiling fans in the classrooms over the cafeteria at our school.